It took me only one night to finish watching this short drama which only contains five episodes. According to my experience, shorter dramas are usually more compressed, so is this one. I'm glad that I didn't watch it when it was still updating. Waiting for the next episode would drive me crazy because the plot is so attractive so that I could not stop watching it and press my desire to see what would happen next. Certainly, you can never learn the whole story without finish watching the entire drama.
I'm fascinated by the twisted friendship, the turns, the murders, and the strange worldview presented in this drama. Someone on the internet comment on this drama as the Japanese version of Why Woman Kills. I disagree with that. From my perspective, it's more of a female version of Journey Under the Midnight Sun, at least from the reason behind the murders and the disconnection between the three characters after the murders. In Journey Under the Midnight Sun, the female leading seems to have strange faith in sexual assaults. She used it every time as her weapon. In this drama, the three girls have that sort of faith too. They believed that murder someone can bring a happy ending. It started when Hino Satoko asks Yuri to kill her grandfather who assaults her all the time. They believe that their life will be happy after her grandfather died. Indeed, that murder saves Satoko from further more assaults. But at the same time, it makes them believe that murder is the best solution, which caused the murder of Satoko's husband.
However, there's some minus about this drama. First, the main leading female goes to the police and confesses that she committed all the crimes, it is weird that the author can hardly find any information about the girls and the murder. Second, I don't know why, but I don't think the ending can really satisfy me. Maybe the mysterious and oppressive vibe at the start seems so impressive so that I had an unrealistic expectation of the ending. Yuri plays the role of a perfect angel and a representation of salvation at the end, but her imperfection depicts at the start makes me think the ending doesn't really make sense. I have a strange feeling about the ending after I watched it. But I can neither really find a better ending of the story nor ideas to improve the pre-existing one. I predict it has something to do with the delivery of the story.
For performance, Kanna Hashimoto proves that she has the ability to act as a sophisticated character. It's good news for her because she can't act adaptions of Josei manga and teen drama and films all the time.
I didn't watch too many WOWOW dramas. I only watched less than five so far. All of them remain an above-average standard. I think WOWOW is very good at telling a mystery. Maybe I should watch more.
I'm fascinated by the twisted friendship, the turns, the murders, and the strange worldview presented in this drama. Someone on the internet comment on this drama as the Japanese version of Why Woman Kills. I disagree with that. From my perspective, it's more of a female version of Journey Under the Midnight Sun, at least from the reason behind the murders and the disconnection between the three characters after the murders. In Journey Under the Midnight Sun, the female leading seems to have strange faith in sexual assaults. She used it every time as her weapon. In this drama, the three girls have that sort of faith too. They believed that murder someone can bring a happy ending. It started when Hino Satoko asks Yuri to kill her grandfather who assaults her all the time. They believe that their life will be happy after her grandfather died. Indeed, that murder saves Satoko from further more assaults. But at the same time, it makes them believe that murder is the best solution, which caused the murder of Satoko's husband.
However, there's some minus about this drama. First, the main leading female goes to the police and confesses that she committed all the crimes, it is weird that the author can hardly find any information about the girls and the murder. Second, I don't know why, but I don't think the ending can really satisfy me. Maybe the mysterious and oppressive vibe at the start seems so impressive so that I had an unrealistic expectation of the ending. Yuri plays the role of a perfect angel and a representation of salvation at the end, but her imperfection depicts at the start makes me think the ending doesn't really make sense. I have a strange feeling about the ending after I watched it. But I can neither really find a better ending of the story nor ideas to improve the pre-existing one. I predict it has something to do with the delivery of the story.
For performance, Kanna Hashimoto proves that she has the ability to act as a sophisticated character. It's good news for her because she can't act adaptions of Josei manga and teen drama and films all the time.
I didn't watch too many WOWOW dramas. I only watched less than five so far. All of them remain an above-average standard. I think WOWOW is very good at telling a mystery. Maybe I should watch more.
